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Expressing Ideas
Before a child can write in detail, he/she needs to be able to identify what the details are. To build an understanding of how to add or express details in describing an object, place, or person, learners match the detail cards to the...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Isolating, See It-Sound It
Working pairs, early readers put their hands into a mystery box, pull out an item, then name and identify its initial phoneme.
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Grammar Worksheet: Lie vs. Lay
To do something to someone or something or not to do something to someone. That is the question. And it is the source of the confusion between lie and lay. The strength of this worksheet is in the clear, cogent explanation for the...
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Texture Hunts and More: Madonna and Child with Saints
Students investigate different painting techniques by studying classic works of art. For this art history lesson, students observe the famous Madonna and Child with Saints painting and describe the texture and images they notice....
Azar Grammar
Song Lessons: Never, My Love
Here's a clever way to introduce language learners to noun clauses. After a brief exercise that provides examples of different types of noun clauses, class members listen to the Association's "Never, My Love" and identify the clauses in...
University of Arizona
Fusing Firecrackers with Narrative
Improve your youngsters' descriptive writing. They study an object and write about what they see as a warm-up, then they read an excerpt from Paul Guest's memoir, One More Theory about Happiness. The next part of the...
ESL Kid Stuff
Intro ESL Lesson (Ages 8-14)
Introduce language learners to class behavior expectations, and each other, with activities that include greeting and name games, conducting a class survey, and creating a classroom rules poster.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Surprise!: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 2)
Surprise! is the theme of a unit covering such topics as consonants, blending, short vowels sounds, high frequency words, and number words. The unit's lessons also include teachable moments covering story structure, illustrations,...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Home Sweet Home: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 5)
Home Sweet Home is the theme of a unit comprised of extra support lessons. Scholars reinforce concepts through chants, grand discussions, and practice worksheets. Topics include digraphs, blending phoneme, long vowels, final sounds,...
Curated OER
Diagramming sentences
In an orderly fashion, go through diagramming sentences with your class. Beginning with a simple sentence and the placement of subject and verb, subsequent slides slowly add on more branches and lines with explanations of sentence types...
Ohio Department of Education
A Glossary of Literary Terms
If you're tired of defining allusion, onomatopoeia, and satire for your language arts students, hand out a complete list of literary devices to keep the terms straight. Each term includes a definition that is easy to understand and...
Curated OER
Sentence Parts Worksheet 1
In this grammar worksheet, students label all the subjects, verbs, direct objects and complements in ten sentences. Students justify their choices.
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I OBJECT! Understanding Transitive Verbs
In this grammar worksheet, learners learn how to use transitive verbs in sentence writing. They then use what they read to answer the 17 questions on the worksheet. The answers are located on the last page of the packet.
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ESL: Classroom Objects
In this ESL classroom objects vocabulary learning exercise, students read 6 phrases underneath pictures of common items found at school. Students color the pictures according to the directions. Example: A blue and brown desk.
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In a Galaxy Far, Far, Far Away
Sixth graders compare distances between objects in the solar system. They investigate how light years are measured and when using them to measure how distances compare with one another. They write an essay exploring the possibility of...
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Spanish Sentence Structure
Instruct your class on how to put together a sentence in Spanish. The resource covers the different parts of speech, showing how the Spanish version of each sentence compares with the English version. While there are no procedures...
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Revising Pronouns and Antecedents
Students choose better pronouns to use in their writing. For this pronouns in writing lesson, students identify pronouns in their writing, then replace second person pronouns to improve their writing.
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Direct Express
Although the game cards are not posted at this time, you could easily create some to put this plan into action. Simply write a few starting lines from different speeches on each index card, and have learners guess if the speaker's intent...
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Personal Pronouns: Putting It All Together
In this personal pronouns activity, students fill in 10 fill in the blank answers about personal pronouns and choose which multiple choice pronoun in parentheses correctly completes 8 sentences. Students practice using the pronouns I or...
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Links in a Chain: Learning About Linking Verbs
In this linking verbs worksheet, students fill in 10 fill in the blank answers about the notes they read and read and underline the linking verb in 10 sentences. Students use the verb look as a linking verb in a complete sentence.
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Teachers.Net Lesson Exchange: Classroom Objects (other, other
Students study the names of classroom objects, then examine their cards and read the information silently and very carefully.
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Using Imagery in Poetry
Young scholars examine the use of imagery in poetry. In this literature lesson, students read "Thought of Hanoi," by Nguyen Thi Vinhand use the provided graphic organizer to chart the poem imagery. Young scholars then describe the...
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Imagining China through Words
When Europeans first came back with tales of China, they provided vivid written accounts and minimal visual imput. This resulted in art rendered mostly from descriptive language. Learners explore this phenomena by listening to...
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Find the Rhyme
Which one rhymes? There are four starting objects here, each heading a row of three objects. Learners identify the objects and their vowel sounds to determine which one rhymes with the first object. All these rhyming words involve the...